Overview
- Helen Zille released a second clip from the long-neglected Windsor West municipal pool to highlight service failures in Johannesburg.
- City leaders said her earlier swim was not in a pothole but in a water-filled trench left after Joburg Water repaired a burst pipe, known as a reinstatement.
- Mayor Dada Morero criticized the stunt as unsafe and warned it could encourage children to enter hazardous worksites.
- City spokesperson Nthathisi Modingoane said the Community Development Department is engaging private partners to revive the Windsor West facility.
- Roads MMC Kenny Kunene said Johannesburg Water owes the Roads Agency hundreds of millions of rand for road reinstatements, underscoring a long-running cost dispute.